We want Waymo money from you! Uber sued for 'stealing self-driving car' blueprints from Alphabet

How could app maker's week get any worse? Glad you asked Alphabet's self-driving car outfit and Google stablemate Waymo is suing Uber, alleging theft of trade secrets and patent infringement.…

Google’s answer to Instant Articles now accounts for seven percent of traffic to big US publishers

Android Messages will be new default texting app Google wants you to use

How to nuke websites you don't like: Slam Google with millions of bogus DMCA takedowns

Copyright allegations wreck search rankings Analysis  Big corporations are abusing the system for taking down files and links to copyright-infringing content by sending millions of fake links, according to Google.…

Google accidentally wiped a bunch of Google Wifi and OnHub devices

MIT goes down to the wire: Brain cable pipes electricity, chemicals, light straight into minds

Polymer highway into the head promises easier neurological monitoring MIT brain boffins have developed a tiny fiber that can carry chemical, electrical, and optical signals back and forth between the brain and an external device, offering an improve…

iTunes Remote app adds support for two-factor authentication

Apple has updated the iTunes Remote app for iPhones and iPads with support for two-factor authentication when signing in for Home Sharing. It’s a free app available at the Apple App Store. iT…

Google start Upspin-opensourceproject voor simpel delen bestanden

Technici van Google zijn het opensourceproject Upspin gestart. Hun doel is om tot een mechanisme te komen waarmee consumenten eenvoudig bestanden aan elkaar beschikbaar kunnen maken. Bestandsnamen beginnen met een e-mailadres.

I was authorized to trash my employer's system, sysadmin tells court

Michael Thomas' appeal will send shockwaves through IT industry if successful Back in December 2011, Michael Thomas did what many sysadmins secretly dream of doing: he trashed his employer's network and left a note saying he quit.…

US 'security' biz trio Sentinel Labs, Vir2us, SpyChatter accused of lying about certification

Watchdog forces them to drop claims of privacy protections Three US companies have settled with the FTC after they were accused of lying about the security safeguards on their customer information.…

Google’s Allo chat app is finally coming to desktop — eventually

Afbeeldingen tonen Huawei Watch 2 met sportief ontwerp

Op internet zijn afbeeldingen verschenen van de Huawei Watch 2. De smartwatch met Android Wear 2.0 lijkt over een sportief uiterlijk te gaan beschikken en komt in het zwart, oranje en grijs uit, afgaande op de afbeeldingen.

Razer brengt powerbank voor laptops uit

Razer heeft een powerbank met een capaciteit van 12.800mAh aangekondigd. Volgens het bedrijf kan de accessoire de accuduur van de Blade Stealth tot voorbij de 15 uur tillen. De powerbank gaat 170 euro kosten.

Show Notes: The telecom industry isn’t the tech industry, dammit

'First ever' SHA-1 hash collision calculated. All it took were five clever brains... and 6,610 years of processor time

Tired old algo underpinning online security must die now Google researchers and academics have today demonstrated it is possible – albeit with a lot of computing power – to produce two different documents that have the same SHA-1 hash signature.…

Firefox is testing a feature that lets you snooze tabs until later

Google and Facebook join in protest of Trump’s ruling on transgender teens

Brit lords slip 30Mbps Universal Service Obligation into UK Digital Economy Bill

Eleventh-hour amendment, but will it stick with government? An eleventh-hour amendment has been added to the UK government's Digital Economy Bill, proposing an increase of the Universal Service Obligation from 10Mbps to 30Mbps.…

Ad men hope blocking has stalled as sites guilt users into switching off

How many swallows do you need for a summer? One will do The adoption of prophylactics to protect users against advertising failed to rise in 2016, according to pollsters YouGov.…

Alphabet's Waymo sues Uber for allegedly stealing self-driving car secrets

BioShock studio Irrational Games has reformed as Ghost Story